Another movie list
Let’s see what was it that I have seen lately.
Coco Chanel with Shirley MacLaine as the old Coco tells us a different story than the one we already knew. And it seems to be more biographic in a documentary sense of the word. But then again, it may only seem that way. My advice? Don’t.
This one was recommended by a depressive friend as the movie with the Russians on HBO. It’s with Ukrainians, but mostly it’s about Jews. Nice cast, some pretty impressive imagery, and I think I like the book a lot lot better. I would be curious what Romer!can and Bunissima have to say about it.
Enigma it’s about the war and there is Ukraine again. I love a movie with a plot and this one has several! Plus plump Winslet is showing how acting is done.
Also, I kinda enjoyed Knockin’ on Heaven’s Doors in a Run, Lola, Run way.
From the brain washing easy going feel good shelf, this one, and this one, but only if you have time to kill and you don’t want to strangle it.
Finally films I regret wasting my time with, stop yawning! The Dark Side of the Sun, Slaves of New York - I remember being so naive in the 80s, but I don’t remember the 80s being so borin.
I will tell you what I thought about the movie. I thought it was irresistible, between Elijah Wood’s frowns, a mysterious family history, and a foreign and weird country with funny, entrepreneurial people, who do not really do much, but know it all. Of course, I had to let it slip, Frodo, I mean Jonfen, could not have been rid of the curse of the ring just yet, and he still had to go through the ordeal of saying once more, “The ring!”
The way the American tourist is faced with the reality of a different world for him is very well pictured, I could say. I loved how the spirit of the local people was surprised in two great scenes, the one where, speaking about Jonathan, the old man says to a complete stranger “He doesn’t eat meat”, and the potato scene, which was priceless . I thought the actors were brilliant, especially Eugene Hutz. Just like you, I loved the imagery as well and found the movie to be quite funny. At the end, with a sentimental, painful and surprising tone, foreseeable in the old man’s slowly rising disquietude, the suicide represents the end of the mistery, the end of the story itself, leaving place for a new future, because everything is illuminated for everybody.
So, I liked the movie.